[Dixielandjazz] Recorder

[Dingo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jim Kashishian

>I  record all of our gigs using a Tascam DR-40 Linear PCM Recorder in
>stereo.  The gadget is not terribly expensive, extremely small, will hold
>two sets of 45 minutes no problem on a 2 GB card (supplied).
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Thanx for nod on this recorder, Jim; I wish this technology had been around
30 or so years ago. Am now trying to justify my need for one tho', with
little jazz in my area and being more-or-less housebound these days, I'm
having difficulty, but ......... ;-)

My first venture in to gig recording was in 1968 with a second hand open
reel Akai X-4 stereo portable (a poor man's Uher). When it worked it was OK
but was plagued by dodgy motors.

Ten years on and having got into the local jazz scene, I bought a JVC
CD-1635 stereo cassette portable which produced many hours of decent gig
recordings. I'm digitising some of these at the moment. After that, for a
short while, I used a small Tandy/Radio Shack stereo portable with external
mics. I did get some half decent recordings tho' with the auto recording
level these were few and far between.

After that, and having started doing the sound mix for festivals, I
'plumbed' my Sony EV-S800 DMAS mains deck into the mixer then, finally,
switched to using a Sony MiniDisc deck. An almost forgotten format these
days, but I still like MiniDisc.

Right ..... I'm back off to the Tascam website for some more attempted 
justification.
--
John D